Ace Attorney anime slated to debut in April

Announcing staff and cast for Ace Attorney anime

An anime adaptation of the popular Ace Attorney game franchise is due to premiere on April 2, Capcom announced over the weekend. The title of the anime series is “Gyakuten Saiban: Sono ‘Shinjitsu’, Igiari!”, loosely translated into English “Ace Attorney: Object to the Truth!”. No overview trailer or official synopsis has been revealed yet. A-1 Pictures (Sword Art Online, Aldnoah.Zero) will produce Gyakuten Saiban: Sono ‘Shinjitsu’, Igiari!.

Some voice actors have been cast already, and please note that they are different actors from the voice actors used in the games. The cast includes Yuki Kaji (Nanatsu no Taizai), Aoi Yuuki (One Punch Man), Masashi Tamaki (Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo Returns), Chie Nakamura (Naruto), Masami Iwasaki (Asylum Session), and Tooru Nara (Chihayafuru).

Staff members include: Ayumu Watanabe (Space Brothers, Doraemon) in the director’s seat, Series Composer is Atsuhiro Tomioka (Inazuma Eleven, Pokémon: Black and White) while the Anime Character Designer is Keiko Ota (Inuyasha, D.Gray-man), Kaoru Wada (Hyakko) will be the Music Composer.

Ace Attorney (Gyakuten Saiban) is a series of visual novel adventure games. The game involves players playing as defense attorney Phoenix Wright. Each game consists of two segments, trial and investigation, where players will have to try and examine all the clues, witnesses and come up with a conclusion. Nine games has been released so far and Capcom is currently developing Ace Attorney 6 for Nintendo 3DS which will debut in Japan later this year.

There is also a manga out based on the games, written by Kenji Kuroda and drawn by Kazuo Maekawa, which premiered in 2006 in Bessatsu Young Magazine A live-action film adaptation of the game, titled Ace Attorney, premiered in Japanese theaters on February 11, 2012, at Toei Company, and directed by Takashi Miike.